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A. S. BAXENDALE.

DYNAMO ELECTRIC MACHINE. No. 494,886. Patented Apr. 4, 1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR S. BAXENDALE, OF SELANGOR, ENGLAND.

DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,836, dated April 4, 1893. Applicationfiled April 22, 1892. Serial No. 430,288. (No model.) Patented in England December 9, 1890, No- 20,102.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR SALISBURY BAXENDALE, a citizen of England, residing at Selangor, Straits Settlements, have invented a new and useful Dynamo-Electric Machine, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, dated December 9, 1890, No. 20,102,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a dynamo electric machine wherein the bobbins of insulated wire, instead of being arranged on a revolving armature, are attached to the ends of an oscillating lever and, being thus moved to and fro in magnetic fields, have electric currents induced in them.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is an end elevation and Fig. 3 is a plan of a dynamo electric machine according to my invention.

M M are two magnets which I have shown wound with wire so as to be electromagnets, but they might obviously be permanent magnets without such winding. They have pole pieces P hollowed out so as to allow bobbins B wound with insulated wire to reciprocate verticallyin the spaces between the hollowed faces of the pole pieces. The bobbins B are fixed to opposite ends of a lever L which is pivoted at A and is caused to oscillate by the ratchet teeth of a pair of wheels IV acting alternately on two antifriction rollers R mounted on the lever L. The Wheels IV are fixed on an axis carrying a pulley Q which is driven by a belt from any suitable motor.

Having thus described the nature of this invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical effect, I claim In a dynamo electric machine, the combination of a lever provided with anti friction rollers, a pair of magnets, a pair of bobbins wound with insulated wire and mounted at the ends of the lever in spaces between the pole pieces of the inagnets,and a pair of continuously revolving wheels having ratchet teeth which alternately act on the anti-friction rollers of the lever, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of November, A. D. 1891.

ARTHUR S. BAXENDALE.

\Vitnesses:

E. W. BIRCH, III ag istra 15c, llfalacca.

J. S. HEUGH, Royal Navy, Commanding H llI. S. Rattler. 

